Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Friday, February 19, 2010

War is brutal

and people fighting wars can be savage...

Icon of soldier beheaded for not taking off his cross gives myrrh in Penza church

The article doesn't say, but the only thing I can think of is that the soldiers who captured him were Muslim. It's the only thing that makes sense.

Can miracles like this still happen? I believe in miracles, while at the same time I admit to being most often skeptical, if only because so many of these 'miracles' turn out to be hoaxes, often perpetrated to make money or for political ends...


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